More Swimming and The Fire Station

We had another swim lesson today. As we were walking up the steps to get to the pool I could already hear kids screaming and crying. Evan did well from the start. Noah starting throwing a fit right away. I told him I would only hold him after his turns if he didn't cry. That actually helped. Then, about in the middle of the lesson after Noah's turn he ran up to me and said "She didn't hold me and I swam without floaties." He was so proud of himself and after that he did fine. Over and over today he kept asking, "Can you believe I swam without floaties today?" So, we are making progress. Let's hope he keeps this up tomorrow.

Morry worked from home today.

When we came home Noah couldn't wait to tell Morry about swimming.

At 4pm we met the moms club at the fire station near us. We got a tour, safety video, and the kids got to climb on the fire truck.

When we got home got dinner ready and then ate.

We had our clean up night tonight since we are getting the carpet cleaned tomorrow.

Now we are going upstairs to get the kids ready for bed.

Noah didn't want to be in the picture

Texas Football

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today we took the whole family to the Texas-Iowa State football game. Before we left for the game, however, Rachel went for a seven mile run. As she was finishing up it began to rain. We weren't sure how the game would be, but luckily it stopped raining before the game.

We parked near the fire station closest to the stadium and walked from there to the stadium. It was a pretty long walk, but both boys walked the entire way. They seemed to enjoy the walk and everything to look at.

During the first half of the game, the boys were a little cranky. They weren't that into the game. I think they were kind of hungry. During the 2nd quarter, Rachel and I took them down to the food court and got them food. They each got an ICEE and Evan had a personal pizza. Noah ate some of the pizza as well and they both had some apples. After that the boys were in a much better mood.

We stayed into the 4th quarter because the boys were being so well behaved. Unfortunately, Texas was not playing well. After they went down 28-6, we left.

The walk back to the car was tough because by that point, Evan and Noah were tired. I carried Evan almost the entire way back.

When we got to the fire station, one of the trucks was pulled out and sitting there. Evan wanted to look at the truck. One of the firefighters came out and was happy to show Evan the truck. Noah wanted to see it too. They got to go into the fire truck and both boys actually go to sit in the driver's seat. Evan absolutely loved it. On the way home, he said he wanted to do it again.

When we got home, the boys played outside for a bit. But then they got really cranky. We put Noah down for a nap and after a little fit, Evan fell asleep next to me on the couch while I watched the Auburn-LSU game.

For dinner, Grandma and Papa babysat for the boys. They took them to Waterloo Ice House. Noah ate all of his peanut butter and jelly sandwich and his fruit. Evan ate half of his sandwich and all of his fruit.

Rachel and I went to the Buenos Aires Cafe. It was pretty good. It was nice and relaxing too.

When we got home we watched the end of the Phillies-Giants game. I was happy that the Giants won.

Until next time...

Airport

This morning we took a walk again. This time I didn’t take them to the school because it was too hard on me last time to chase Evan around holding Noah and Lizzy. We walked over to the fire station and Evan was very excited that the fire truck was out. We looked at it from a distance for a few minutes.

When we came home I made a smoothie for Evan. That’s about all he would eat for lunch.

Evan and Noah went down for naps around 1:30 and they both slept pretty well.

Marilyn/Grandmom’s plane was scheduled to come in at 7:30pm. We left the house around 7:00 and as we were driving through the entrance to the airport when Marilyn called and said she was at baggage claim and ready. We could have just driven up and picked her up outside, but Evan would have been devastated if we didn’t go in. He was so excited to go to the airport. So, we parked and walked in. As soon as Evan saw Marilyn he ran up to her and jumped in her arms.

We went to Hyde Park for dinner and ran into Myles and Deborah there. We were able to eat pretty quickly and Evan and Noah were good throughout dinner.

They are in bed now. Let’s hope they sleep through the night. Last night Noah got up at 5am and I had to go in his room for a while to get him back to sleep.